It becomes increasingly enhanced when taken into the sporting landscape, with the Mannings, Williams and Morris' producing some epic encounters (and one hilarious 'fight').

The legendary Johns brothers were no different, with Matthew Johns detailing a wild brawl with his brother Andrew that left the eighth immortal sprawled out outside a Newcastle pub.

The older Johns told the hilarious story during Fox League Mornings alongside regular Matty Johns Show panellists Bryan Fletcher and Nathan Hindmarsh, detailing how a disastrous training left Andrew on the outer with the Knights squad.

“We got there (to training) once and Joey, like everyone he has his good days and bad days but his were more amplified, and he turned up in a crappy mood and he just ruined the training session,” Johns said

“Every time he passed someone the ball he’d pass it to their ankles, they’d drop the ball and he’d give it to them.

“One day he was carrying on, we had a training session and he was in a mood.

"That night we were going to have a team dinner so all the boys came off the field and were into him so I went, ‘You know what, does anyone really want him at the team dinner?’ and everyone went, ‘Nah’.

“So I rang Joey when I got home and said, ‘Mate, the team dinner is off, it’s not going to happen’."

Whilst Matty thought he was in the clear, the situation would blow up when his brother would spot the team at dinner, delivering expletives across the restaurant.

Eventually, the brothers would come to blow, with Matty getting the better of the scrap thanks to an assist from his partner Trish.

"I walk into the bar and he’s there with his imbecile mates and he goes, ‘Oh here he is’ and I said, ‘Come on, let’s go’ and he’s pretty drunk," he revealed.

“So I walk out the front and when he comes out he’s all over the shop, he’s swinging punches at me, so I thought, ‘Here we go, easy victory’, so I put one on his chin and I was really happy.

“What I learnt later was that as he was coming out Trish hit him in the back of the head and rattled him.”

Eventually, the story would get back to Daily Telegraph reporter Phil Rothfield, who would run with the story the following week after Matty came clean.

I get a call from Buzz Rothfield saying, ‘Hey mate, how are you Matty? There’s a bit of a story going around that you and Joey have had a stick. I’ve got a mate that drinks at the Cricketer’s Arms and he reckons it happened’,” Matty recalled.

“I said, ‘Mate it didn’t happen, but by chance what did your mate say?’ And he (Rothfield) said, ‘My mate said you gave it to him’, and so I said, ‘Actually, yeah it happened’.

“The following Sunday it’s in the paper and Joey said, ‘How did people find out about this?’”